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Cowpea crop is known as "Vegetable Meat".
Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) is a legume consumed as a high‐quality plant protein source in many parts of the world. High protein and carbohydrate contents with relatively low-fat content and complementary amino acid pattern to that of cereal grains make cowpea an important nutritional food in the human diet.
The cowpea has often been referred to as "poor man's meat" due to the high levels of protein found in the seeds and leaves.

Colour of roses with Cyanidin anthocyanin is Bluish-red.
Anthocyanins produce red color in roses. They belong to the family of flavonoids. Cyanidine is a dye belonging to the group of anthocyanidins.
Blue/violet flowers tend to contain delphinidin-based anthocyanins, magenta/red flowers contain predominantly cyanidin-based anthocyanins, and orange/brick red flowers contain pelargonidin-based anthocyanins.

Vitamin E is termed an Anti-sterility vitamin.
Vitamin E was first discovered by Evans and Bishop in 1922, and it was initially denoted as an “anti-sterility factor X” that was necessary for reproduction. Vitamin E has been well characterized as a powerful lipid-soluble antioxidant through extensive research.
Vitamin E is known as anti-sterility vitamin or fertility vitamin. It is chemically called tocopherol. Vitamin E deficiency occurs rarely in adults. Vitamin E is used during testosterone synthesis.

Very high respiratory activity is seen in Spinach.
Spinach is an annual, cool-season, green, leafy vegetable that is rich in health-promoting compounds, such as vitamins A and C and flavonoids.
The respiration rates of spinach leaves during storage in a 14.69-l chamber with different amounts of O₂ per unit mass of spinach: O₂ consumption rate and CO₂ production rate.
Spinach has relatively high respiration and water-loss rates, and is prone to tissue decay, microbial growth, and loss of nutrients, all of which lead to a low storage potential.

Cashewnut originated from Brazil.
Cashews originated in Brazil's northeast, the easternmost corner of South America. Portuguese missionaries took it to East Africa and India during the late 16^th century, where it became abundant at low altitudes near the seacoast. The Portuguese took it to Goa, India between 1560 and 1565.
It is a tropical evergreen tree that produces the cashew seed and the cashew apple accessory fruit.

Grape fan leaf virus is transmitted by Nematode.
Grapevine fanleaf virus (GFLV) is a plant pathogenic virus of the family Secoviridae. It infects grapevines, causing chlorosis of the leaves and lowering the fruit quality.
It is transmitted via a nematode vector, the Xiphinema index. This nematode acquires the virus by feeding on the roots of an infected plant and passes it on in the same manner.
The host for Grapevine fanleaf virus or GFLV is the Vitis species. This includes V. vinifera, V. rupestris and hybrids.

The recommended storage temperature to extend the shelf life of bananas is 12° - 15°C.
Keep them cool and protected from the light: Bananas should be stored at around 13°C, as they will ripen quicker if they are too warm.
Bananas grow in hot climates, so they are unused to the cold. If they're kept at a cold temperature in the fridge, the enzymes that enable them to ripen are inhibited. And as those enzymes become inactive, other enzymes operate more efficiently. Some cause cell damage, while others (browning enzymes) cause the skin to blacken.

"Pusa-Meghali" is an improved variety of carrots.
Pusa Meghali is a tropical carrot variety with light orange colour roots. Developed at IARI, New Delhi; has orange flesh, a self-coloured core and a short top.
It is suitable for sowing from September end to November mid. It becomes ready for harvesting in 95 - 105 days. The average root yield per hectare is 250 - 280 q/ha.

The early season variety of apples is Irish peach.
Irish Peach is an early-season apple, often ripening at the end of July or early August. It has a good natural resistance to many of the diseases that affect apple trees.
Irish Peach is an early, high-quality dessert apple. Small yellow fruit with a dull dark crimson flush and faint stripes.
The flesh of the fruit is white, tinged green, firm and crisp with a juicy, fair flavour that's slightly perfumed.

The Central Institute of Sub-tropical Horticulture (CISH) is in Lucknow.
The CISH has basic, strategic, and applied research to enhance sustainable productivity, quality, and utilization of subtropical horticultural crops.
It helps in the transfer of technology, capacity building, and impact assessment of technologies.
The main objective is for the management of genetic resources of mandated fruit crops and their conventional and molecular characterization.